Exporting Max Render Q in PP CC - would it use crossfire?

[Combat squirrel]

As title, I regularly use PP CC to make videos. My specs are:

4930k @ 4.6/7 ghz (depends on temp)
32gb Quad 1866mhz ram
AMD r290x 4gb.

Obvoiusly I export using max render quality and of course this takes a couple of hours for 1080p 38bit rate 2 pass.

I was wondering if I crossfired my graphics card with another r290x - would PP CC use BOTH to render the export?

I cannot find a clear answer on the net.

Using windows 8.1 pro

Thank you

 

[humbug]

As title, I regularly use PP CC to make videos. My specs are:

4930k @ 4.6/7 ghz (depends on temp)
32gb Quad 1866mhz ram
AMD r290x 4gb.

Obvoiusly I export using max render quality and of course this takes a couple of hours for 1080p 38bit rate 2 pass.

I was wondering if I crossfired my graphics card with another r290x - would PP CC use BOTH to render the export?

I cannot find a clear answer on the net.

Using windows 8.1 pro

Thank you

Difficult to know..

For example.

One thing we want to be clear on before we get into our testing is that for the majority of Premiere Pro CC users, a desktop card is going to give you better performance at a much lower price. The advantage of using a workstation card is largely in how quickly Adobe officially certifies newer workstation cards and drivers. So if you have an issue with Premiere, you are much more likely to get a fix from Adobe if you are using a NVIDIA Quadro K4000 versus a NVIDIA GTX 780 simply because the Quadro card is on the certified hardware list. In fact, in our testing Premiere would crash when we enabled SLI with dual NVIDIA Geforce GTX Titans. Take it out of SLI (which isn't required for full performance anyway), and it works just fine.

The latest drivers for each card were used (320.86 for NVIDIA Quadro, 320.49 for NVIDIA GTX Titan, 12.104.2 for AMD FirePro) along with the latest drivers and BIOS versions for the motherboard and other components. All Windows and software updates were applied before starting our testing. With the exception of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan, all of these cards are currently on Adobe's supported card list. Note that SLI/Crossfire does not need to be enabled for dual GPU configurations. In fact, NVIDIA drivers currently do not allow SLI with Quadro cards except on a few very specific prebuilt systems.

It does not say anything about Cross Fire not being compatible, so if one assumes they tested all then there is no problem.

Going on they tested various Dual setup's... there does look like there is a difference between single and dual.

They go on to say.

In addition, remember that not all effects support GPU acceleration. Especially in the case of third-party effects, be sure to check to see if they support acceleration before deciding what video card you should use. Even if they do support GPU acceleration, keep in mind they most likely do not support multiple cideo cards. In those cases, you should avoid multiple GPU setups and stick with a single GPU configuration.

So #### knows, sometimes yes, sometimes no, depends on what you are doing.

The highest AMD GPU they used was a W9000, which is a 7970.

A 290X would be a W9100

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-Professional-GPU-Acceleration-502/

Hope it helps you in some way.

Have you looked for Radeon to Firepro modded drivers? i know there used to be drivers that will turn a standard Radeon GPU into a fullblown work station GPU, if thats still the case maybe you can turn that 290X into a true Firepro W9100 monster.

here are some old ones... http://www.overclock.net/t/1403233/...ers-13-152-4-whql-for-radeon-cards-11-22-2013

 

[Combat squirrel]

Thanks for the reply humbug. Well I don't need hacked drivers as it already works fine and is defo using the GPU on export as max render is selected and the GPU load is 100%.

But thanks for digging up the info so far, seems nvidia is hit and miss, wonder what happens with AMD, anyone got crossfired cards to find out ?

 

[Combat squirrel]

any more info ?

 

[humbug]

You might have more luck asking on Adobe forums. https://forums.adobe.com/welcome